Pith Number

pith:MZNW47CA

pith:2012:MZNW47CAQQBAQHARO6DFZRCHOZ

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Shared Information -- New Insights and Problems in Decomposing Information in Complex Systems

Eckehard Olbrich, Johannes Rauh, J\"urgen Jost, Nils Bertschinger

arxiv:1210.5902 v1 · 2012-10-22 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MZNW47CAQQBAQHARO6DFZRCHOZ}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:49:39.109792Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

665b6e7c408402081c1177865cc447767687ca45946aff91b6dd508007d6335a

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.5902 · arxiv_version: 1210.5902v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.5902 · pith_short_12: MZNW47CAQQBA · pith_short_16: MZNW47CAQQBAQHAR · pith_short_8: MZNW47CA

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MZNW47CAQQBAQHARO6DFZRCHOZ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 665b6e7c408402081c1177865cc447767687ca45946aff91b6dd508007d6335a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cdc8ee688faa6294fa5e8623e1345da1d3c9db96c3ec0c0dd2c3b23bb36c8bf0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-22T14:23:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fde391eae1697f31d561c1b4af8c66849acb2bc23c2e16a3c48dbdbcd436a6a1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.5902",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}